DERA, ROSLAN & CAMPION Inc.

Dera, Roslan & Campion Inc. is an industry leader in entertainment and lifestyle public relations, encompassing music, television, large-format films, books, Internet, finance and corporate campaigns of international note. Our diverse roster includes everyone from HGTV and National Geographic, to Fox News Channel personality Judge Andrew Napolitano and the ex-con turned fraud buster, Barry Minkow.

DRC, Inc. specializes in nonfiction and documentary television, with current and recent clients including National Geographic EXPLORER series and host Boyd Matson, the Ultimate Explorer series and host Lisa Ling, National Geographic Specials on PBS, The History Channel, The History Channel International, The Biography Channel, Home & Garden Television Network (HGTV), the DIY (Do It Yourself) Network, Scripps Networks overall (including Food Network and Fine Living), Fuse Television (formerly Much Music Channel), and Bob Vila and BVTV, producers of the nationally syndicated Kingworld series, Bob Vila's Home Again.  Among Dera's other recent projects and clients are “Extra,” Jenny Jones, “The American Music Awards,” “The Beatles Anthology,” “The Abbey Road Story” and the Public Television special documentary series on youth and learning, “The Merrow Report.”

DRC has also distinguished itself in the world of large format films, most recently handling the media campaigns for National Geographic & Destination Cinema Inc.’s giant screen epic, Lewis & Clark:  Great Journey West;  Giant Screen Films’s Pulse: a STOMP Odyssey (from the creators of the musical theater sensation “STOMP”), which premiered in October 2002 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City); and SOS Planet (nWave Pictures),  a 3-D CGI conservation film that premiered in select U.S. theaters in February 2003.  Currently, Dera is working on the spring 2004 releases of SK Films’s incredible 3-D live action documentary BUGS!  and  on deck for Dera is the world premiere of Brain Power (currently in production and to be distributed by nWave Pictures), which explores the human brain by chronicling the feats of world-class cyclist Tyler Hamilton during the 100th annual Tour de France race.  DRC also organized tremendously successful national media campaigns for Shackleton’s Antarctic Adventure, the story about Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated 1914 expedition, a co-production of NOVA/WGBH Boston and White Mountain Films, and nWave Pictures’ controversial computer-generated 3-D large format film, Haunted Castle—both of which released to North American theaters in February 2001.   In addition, DRC also promoted a number of giant screen films for Ogden Entertainment, generating media coverage for 1998's Amazon, an Oscar-nominated documentary that is still in release around the world, and overall media surrounding "The Best of IMAX Film Festival"  in New York City in 1999, as well as a specific campaign for The Old Man & The Sea, the Oscar-winning film by Russian animator, Aleksandr Petrov, which premiered to huge acclaim and national coverage at that festival.

Our firm has become the industry leader in supplying mainstream media representation to Christian leaders, authors, publishers and musicians. Current and recent clients include Thomas Nelson Publishers, Zondervan, evangelist Luis Palau, EMI CMG/Sparrow Records (Steven Curtis Chapman, Avalon, Newsboys, Nicole Nordeman, Jump 5, Toby Mac, Michael Tait, Passion, Amazing Grace collection, etc), Word Records (Jaci Velasquez), International Justice Mission, Christian Cultural Center (NYC’s largest church) and pastor-by-day/fraud-buster by night, Barry Minkow.  In a short time, we have landed a Newsweek cover story on the surging Christian music industry, three New York Times cover stories, as well as multiple profiles on CBS Sunday Morning, CBS 60 Minutes, Time Magazine, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, Associated Press, ESPN, NPR and many more.

Our current roster of authors includes several New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-sellers, including Michael Savage, Barry Minkow, Larry Winget, Fox News Channel’s Judge Andrew Napolitano, Simon & Schuster’s Donna Fish, and Heritage Foundation’s Rebecca Hagelin.

DRC has recently created a New Media division, which oversees the launch and development of new Web sites and other nontraditional media projects, such as the site for the nonprofit research organization, The Institute For Human Origins (the team that discovered the 3.2-million-year old skeletal remains of the human ancestor known as “Lucy”).  Dera also handled the national media campaigns for two projects by Candide Media, Ten-Second Films, an online film competition, and Talking Street, a new walking cell phone tour with interactive documentary audio, which launched in New York City in fall 2003 with The Lower East Side: Birthplace of Dreams, narrated by Jerry Stiller.  Dera’s ongoing network television campaigns also incorporate the promotion of their companion websites, including nationalgeographic.com, HGTV.com, and DIYnetwork.com, the latter two are leaders in the home category). Dera also did publicity surrounding the restructured Bob Vila website, BobVila.com, a joint venture with Sears Roebuck.

Our music division has an illustrious history, handling media campaigns for some of the most important acts in popular music history, including Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, David Bowie, Johnny Cash, Robert Palmer, George Benson, The Band, Steve Winwood, Duran Duran, Cyndi Lauper, Alice Cooper, Joe Walsh, Ronnie Wood, Charlie Watts, Foreigner, Roger Daltrey, ZZ Top, Ray Davies/The Kinks, UB40, Chet Atkins, Mannheim Steamroller, The Chieftains and Les Paul. We launched the careers of Diana Krall, Clint Black, Sons of the Desert, Alabama and most recently NYC’s singing cop, Daniel Rodriguez.

Our music division specializes in live entertainment, handling corporate and concert publicity for Metropolitan Talent, named as Pollstar’s 2000 “Promoter of the Year,” as well as campaigns for Pollstar’s 2001 “Promoter of the Year,” Jam Productions, including their Jessica Simpson Tour, and another top national promoter, AEG. We launched the biggest grossing concert in music history, “Woodstock ‘99,” as well as “Live Aid” and the “Amnesty International” tours.

On the corporate entertainment level, we’ve handled campaigns for Gibson Guitars over the last ten years, as well as the U.S. launch of HMV Record Stores, the Hard Rock Cafe, EMI/Angel/Manhattan Records, Capitol Records, Paul McCartney’s MPL Communications, Reader’s Digest Music Division, BMG/Arista Associated Labels/RCA Victor, Curb Records, and Abbey Road Studios.

Over the years, we have worked successfully with a variety of sports figures, including Baseball Hall of Famer’s Ozzie Smith and Lou Brock, NFL superstar Phil Simms, tennis legend Martina Navratilova, NASCAR driver Damon Lusk, and The Women’s Sports Foundation

Dera, Roslan & Campion Inc. has had particular success with avant-garde and musical theater aimed at both children’s and adult audiences.  The most recent examples have been holiday engagements at Lincoln Center-including the three-week run commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the international mask/mime performance troop sensation, Mummenschanz, and the three-week holiday engagement of  The Flying Karamazov Brothers' acclaimed musical theater show, "Sharps, Flats & Accidentals."  In the past, we have helped to launch the theater/film careers of  Stockard Channing, Matthew Broderick, Eric Stoltz, and Jonathan Silverman, to name a few. 

In addition, Dera, Roslan & Campion Inc. has created images and identities for individuals in a wide range of fields including home improvement guru Bob Vila, acting legend Andy Griffith, computer pro Kim Komando, fitness czar Lucille Roberts, Linda McCartney’s cookbooks and frozen food line, Food Network’s “Low Carb & Lovin’ It” chef George Stella, children's book author/Sesame Street co-creator Jeff Moss, and the most successful personal development speaker/author in the country, Larry Winget.